The Peak Country (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Peak CountryRetired hamlets, by the side of pure and crystalline streams, and sometimes swelling up into purple ridges of gritstone moor, whose silence is seldom broken except by the sudden sharp cry of the grouse, or by the tinkle of half-seen streams. One would have looked to find that these happy valleys of Rasselas these vales, as Mr. Ruskin said of them, Where one would expect to meet Apollo and the Muses - would have been guarded by these busy northern peoples as a sacred playground not less zealously than America has guarded her Yosemite Valley. Instead, we have two railways-from Derby to Manchester and from Manchester to Sheffield - driven right through their very heart we have hideous quarries and uglier lime works and, lastly, we have whole stretches of de licious strath converted into angular tanks. I assure you, ' 'said Byron in one of his letters, there are things in Derbyshire as noble as in Greece or Switzerland. That, no doubt, was always hyper bole, and would need to be qualified still further to-day. But, in spite of modern recklessness, the Peak country still remains one of the most romantic and beautiful in England. It exhibits a delicate ¿avour of its own, varied, but possessed of essential unity, that marks it of strongly from all other dis tricts that claim recognition for their beauty in England and Wales.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.